Clothes-line support.



D. GAMBLE.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

APPucATmn msn :uns 24, 1911.

1,1 37,395. Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

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T czZZvwzom' it may concern:

Be it known that l, DOROTHY GAiyIBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 601 l/Vest One Hundred and Thirty-second street, borough of Manhattan', city, county,

andState of NewYork, have invented cer-v tain new and useful improvements inn;

Clothes-Line Supports; and l do herebyY de- Clare thel following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art `to which it vappertains to make and use the same.

' weight of the clothes, serves to hold the army are being hung.

It is customary, particularly in tenement houses in cities, to suspend a doubleclothes- Vline between a pulley fastened to the win-V dow-framing and a second pulley fastened to a suitable support in or across the area, such an. arrangement permitting of hanging the clothes on one strand of the line and pulling them out progressively as the suc cessive articles Vare hung.

lt is the object of the present invention to provide a device whereby the pulley at the window may be swung inside the windowframing, so that the clothes may be conveniently fastened to the line without leaning outv of the window, to thereby increase the facility and safety of the operation.

The invention is characterized by the employment of aswinging pulley-carrying arm so arranged that the line pull, that is the pull due to the tension of the line andthe normallyoutside of the window, 'so as not to interfere with the opening and shutting thereof, the swinging varm being combined with means for temporarily holding it inside of the window-frame while the Vclothes rIn the accompanying drawings, a suitable embodiment of the invention'is illustrated,

in which the arm is pivotedl in an upright supportV fastened by screws in a convenient position on the wooden framework of the window, but, kas will at once be understood, the arm could equally well be pivoted in a horizontal support attached to the upright frame of the window, or in a vertical Ysipedificati@'of Letters Patent.

, Appiicaiion inea June 24, 1911. serial no. 635,156.

Patentedpri 2*?, 1915i.

Figure lof the drawings shows .thev Adescribed embodiment of the inventiony `fas 1 .tened to the upright framing of the window,

and shows also the pulley and one end of the Y double clothes-line. rlhe full line portion of the iigureshows the device in the outside position,`and the dotted lines show it in the inside position; Fig. 2, shows the device'in side elevationg' and F ig. 3 shows it infplane, Vthis ligure including also in dotted lines an indication ofthe inside position.V

The illustrated device comprisesl a bracket l, which may conveniently be struck up from a metal bar, and which comprises the upright body portion with two outwardly bent flanges 2 and 3, pierced by holes for the reception of the upright pivot bar 4L of the swinging arm. The swinging arm is continued out horizontally for a suitable distance. It has been found that a horizontal length of bar of 6 or 7 inches is satisfactory for the purpose. The bar is thenbent to form a pulley-receiving loop 6 continued as a vertical portion 7 at the end of which the arm is again looped and bent downwardly to form the'handle 8, this handle being bent away from the horizontal portion 5 to such an extent as -to permit theV loop 9 yof the pulley to pass over it into the pulley-retainingloop 6.` rlhe bracket l is fastened to the window-frame by suitable screws, indicated at 10, and has at the upper iange 2 a short upright stop l1, shown clearly in elevation in Fig. 2 and in plane in Fig. 3.

ln describing the operation of the device it may be assumed that the swinging arm is in the outside position illustrated in full lines in the drawings, when it is desired to hang clothes on the line or remove them therefrom. To this end one takes hold of the handle 8 and lifts the arm suiciently to clear the stop l1, and thenturns it inwardly into theposition shownl in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3. This is suicient to bring the pulley, and consequently the end of the clothes-line, into a convenient position within the window, where the clothes may be hung or removed, and the line manipulated as: desired.

In adopting the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated and described, the desire has been to get the utmost simplicity, and to provide a structure which may be cheap to manufacture and properly manipulated even by the most ignorant. It will nevertheless be understood that the nature of the invention is such that it may be embodied in inany dierentforms, and that the supporting bracket may YbefvariouslyV placed, as above suggested.

What I claim is:

In a clothes linesupport, an arm compris-` the other endv of saidv rod` being bent down' toform a hook to receive the clothes line" pulley and having a reverse bend above said hook and substantially closingthe opening thereof to prevent accidental release of the pulley, the' extreme end rof saifl arm being bent down vertically and extending below Y Said hoolV to form a handle whereby said arln maybe swung, substantially as` de-V scribed.V

' In testimony whereof I aiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

DOROTHY GAMBLE. Y

Wtnessesz- Y WILLIAM. DAVIS, B, G.V GOLYER;

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